Westminster Towers shootout

The Westminster Towers shootout occurred on one night in the spring of 2008 when Niko Bellic, a gunman hired by corrupt Deputy Police Commissioner Francis McReary, assaulted the Westminster Towers housing projects in Spanish Harlem with the goal of killing drug lord Clarence Little and destroying his organization. Bellic was warned to stay out of the complex by the African-American residents, who told him that he was "a long way from Times Square" and that he should not go upstairs unless he wanted something bad to happen. Bellic engaged in a large shootout with the East Harlem Drug Gang before chasing Little to the roof, and he ultimately decided to spare him after Little told him that he would reform and earn his GED. Little disappeared, and McReary paid Bellic $5,000 for the job.